Device for attaching stay-wires in fences



No. 20,826- Patented Mar. 7, I899.

J. B. BARDELMEIER. v DEVICE FOR ATTAGHING STAY WIRES IN FENCES.

(Application filed Dec. 1, 1898.)-

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JULIUS R. BARDELMEIER, OF NEW DOUGLAS, ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR ATTACHING STAY-WIRES IN FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 620,826, dated March'7, 1899.

Application filed December 1, 1898. Serial No. 697,987. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JULIUs R. BARDEL- MEIER, .a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at New Douglas, in the county of Ma di' son and Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDevices for Making Wire Fencing, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a device for attaching the stay-wires of a wirefence to the strand-wires thereof.

The invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fullydescribed, and pointed out in the claim.

Figure I is a perspective view of a pair of strand-wires and a stay-wirewith my improved device shown in connection therewith as used ineffecting the connection of the staywire to the upper or lowerstrand-wire. Fig. II is a view showing the wires illustrated in Fig. Ias they appear when the connection to the upper or lower strand-wire hasbeen accomplished. Fig. III is a similar view to Fig. I, showing thedevice in the position assumed in connecting the stay-wire to one of theintermediate strand-wires. Fig. IV is a similar view to Fig. II, showingthe connection of the stay-wire to the upper or lower strand-wire andone of the intermediate strand -wires. Fig. V is a face view of thedevice. Fig. VI is a cross-sectional view taken on line VI VI, Fig. V.Fig. VII is a cross-sectional view taken on line VII VII, Fig. V. Fig.VIII is a longitudinal sectional view taken on line VIII VIII, Fig. VII.

A designates one of the strand-wires,which may be either the top orbottom wire.

B designates one of the intermediate wires, and O the stay-wire. Ineffecting the connection of the stay-wire to the strand-wire A one end Dof the stay-wire is first bent over, as seen in Fig. I. The deviceconstituting my invention consists of a body 1, having the followingconstruction. In the body is a slot 2, extending from one side thereofto the center and preferably having its inner portion of circular form.The body contains a partition 3, into which the slot 2 extends, andof astrand-wire where the device is used in connection with strand-wires ofbarbed form. At one side of the slot 2 is a groove 6, extend ingtransversely to said slot, the purpose of which will hereinafter appear.At one edge of the body is a slot 7, the use of which will appear in thedescription of the operation of the device.

The operation of this device for attaching the stay-wires to thestrand-wires is as follows: The strand-wires being first strung alongthe posts of the fence and attached thereto, the stay-wire O isconnected to such strand-wires in the following manner. The endD of thestay-wire is bent into the position shown in Fig. I, and the device isplaced on the strand-wire A, so that said strand-wire is received by theslot 2, while the stay-wire also rests in said slot, with the end Dlocated in the groove 6 in a transverse position. The device being thenturned in the direction indicated by the arrow Fig. I, the end D of thestay-wire is carried around the strand-wire A and twisted into a coilthereon,during which the device gradually travels away from the body ofthe stay-wire, so that it does not impinge said body during its turning.In this way the end of the stay is formed into the coil shown in Fig.II. The next operation is to twist the stay-wire onto the intermediatewire B. This is done in the following manner: The device is placed onthe strand-wire B, which is received by its slot 2. The staywire thenbeing passed beneath the strandwire B is placed in the slot 7 in theposition seen in Fig. III. The device is then turned in the directionindicated by the arrow, Fig. III, and the stay-wireis twisted into acoil around the strand-wire B to eifect the coil shown in Fig. IV, afterwhich the stay-wire is removed from the-slot 7, and the same manner ofprocedure is gone through with at the next intermediate wire, if therebe more than one of such wires B. When all of the intermediate Wires, ifthere be more than one, have groove at one side of said slot extendinghad the stay-Wires connected to them, the transversely thereto, saidbody also contain- 10 other outer Wire A receives the connection of inga slot in the edge thereof, substantially the stay-wire in a similarmanner to that of as and for the purpose set forth.

5 the Wire A, as has been described. JULIUS R. BARDELMEIER.

I claim as my invention In presence of-- I In a device of the characterdescribed, a E. S. KNIGHT,

body having a centrally-located slot, and a STANLEY STONER.

